Movie won't fit on DVD

Edutainment · Post by **Edutainment** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:06 pm

How is it that you get the movie, special features and animated menus all on a commercial DVD, but when I try to burn long movies on DVDs, they don't fit? I'm using Nero, and for some reason, movies take up 4-5 times their actual size when I try to put them on a DVD.

Should I use a different program?

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:23 pm

Everything you put on a video DVD is recompressed (well...decompressed) to an encrypted MPEG2 format. A DVD should be able to hold about 3 hours of footage.

Edutainment · Post by **Edutainment** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:24 pm

This is 2 hours and 20 minutes. Nero says it's 6.74GB.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:34 pm

Retail DVD's can hold up to about 8GB. Single-layer (DVD5) discs, however can only hold up to 4.35GB. You need to either strip away some extras, or recompress to a smaller bitrate. You can use DVD Shrink for both.

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:50 pm

I would recommend taking out the spanish etc. audio or anything that you don't need and compress it using DVD Shrink.

Post by **bicostp** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:27 pm

Just increase the compression until it fits.

You're probably not backing up with DVD Shrink, but if you do, get rid of the foreign languages and compress the special features as much as possible to give the main feature as much room as possible.

sglider2 · Post by **sglider2** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:47 pm

I also burn DVDs and I've had this same problem. Retail burnable DVDs come in either 4.7 gb or 8gb (not sure, but I think it's around

. What you need to buy is 8 gb, or you can download DVD Shrink (best program ever) to decompress it. Then try it on your 4.7 gb DVD (assuming that is what you are using). If it doesn't work, then use 8 gb.

Edutainment · Post by **Edutainment** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:35 pm

There are no features or anything. It's just a DivX movie, not direct rip.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:32 am

you cant play divx in a dvd player, it has to be converted to mpeg 2. apparently nero is trying to use a ridiculously high bitrate.

there are 1000 guides on doing this manually, etc.

jfgi.

sam · Post by **sam** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:27 am

You should probably buy the movie instead of pirating and burning.

Felino · Post by **Felino** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:36 pm

Its this kinda going a tad past the forum rules?

Nonsense Man · Post by **Nonsense Man** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:40 pm

Well for all you guys know he is trying to burn a home movie. Anyway don't accuse people if you think they might have done something wrong.

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:23 pm

Try using a dvd encoder other than nero. Nero doesn't like to use normal bitrates.

Edutainment · Post by **Edutainment** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:38 pm

I have a dual layer burner, so I just went out and bought some DVD-9s. All good!

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:31 pm

Edutainment wrote:I have a dual layer burner, so I just went out and bought some DVD-9s. All good!

Glad to see you got this all worked out!

And on a different note, I've always wanted to let you know that your avatar is SO awesome!

Saw the commercial on Ebay, so hilarious.

CTFan